Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-25
FREEZING HIM OUT.
Conspiring Against the
Grand Master Workman
of the knights eff
Labor.
Dissatisfied Knights of Labor---The
will be Warm Times at the
National Meet.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24--Ths great
tidal wave Of opposition to Mr.. Powderly
ard The general officers of the Knights of
Labor which has been sweeping Yer the
country for the last two weeks In the
eleta on of delegates to the Minneapolis
convention has brought CONSERVATION
ans. / error into every stronghold of the
reis,t ny al ministratiou, and no where so
maeii as iuto the general headquarters in
this city. The wave has not been re-
Stricted in its progress to any particular
loc,.iities,.b but is general and overwhelm-
ing. Nothing like it has ever been
known before within the order, and the
result is dismay and confusion to,Mr.
.PoS6erly and his colleagues. Heretofore
they had entertained the belief that the
dissatisfaction i'll the order was only spe-
radio u consequently insignificant, and
their surprise now to see nearly every big
and influential district assembly in the
country elect anti administration dele
gates to Minneapolis can be we'll mag
ined. They are fearful, it is said, that
their race is about run, and accordingly
they are straining every nerve to ward
off the the calamity which is impending.
Everywhere a square issue is being
Joined ut the district elections between
the adherents and the opponents Of the
administration, and the result, at least
u all the large cities, has been SO far al
most uniformity disastrous to the admin
istration.
That Mr.. Powderly and his general
executive board are keenly alive to the
dangerof their situation is apparent from
the uneasiness that prevails among all
the attaches at the general headquarters
here, No. Sl4 North Broad street, and
from MI. Powderly's manifest endeayor
to conciliate the enemies of the admins
tration. He will make a strong effort to
protect himself at the expense of his col.
leagues by ~disavowing any participation
In the acts which have brought the gen
eral executive board into disrepute. Mr..
Powderly already complains at the in
Justice of being held responsible for the
policy of the present board aud also for
the miscellaneous u~tterances contained in
The journal of United Labor. He has
compelled General Secretary Litohman,
Its editor, to discontinue publishing lists
OF labor papers meeting with the approval
of the general board. which occasioned so
much indignation among the liberal
thinking editors whose papers were in
tentionally omitted. Mr. Powderly claims
that he, although the head and chief of
the great organization, should be held re-
sponslble only for his own individual
vote in the deliberations Of the general
board, and he intimates that the course
followed by several of the members of
that board has been directly counter to
his w views and convictions and could
not be changed by him, For this reason
he contends that the general master
workman should be allowed the privilege
OF choosing his own cabinet or general
executive board, and thus be able. to
place around him men of his own style OF
thinking. By this method, he says, the
inconsistencies and clashings OF policy
that have marked the course of the gen
eral officers would be avoided and a unity
and harmony of purpose preserved.
MI. Powderly that he Will
advocate Els plan at Minneapolis. By
doing this he will himself draw the lines
ca an issue which will inevitably result
In his own overthrow and that of those
associated with him, for the democratic
element of the order, which largely pre-
dominates In point OF numbers, will never
consent to the introduction of such a sys-
tenn. The struggle will then be waged
between the autocratic and democratic
elements, and it is not difficult to predict
what the outcome will be. The anti-ad-
ministrationists will accept these lines Of
Mr.. Powderly's drawing and will
Fight him on the issue thus defined.
Should The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. win,
as they probably viii, In this issue, they
Will lose no time in overturntng the new
constitution, together with the regula-
i ttftna an1laarn; mr. ~ kha $780, -
tfonal trade assemblies.
The new constitution liz bound to furn-
ish material for a long and bitter aght In
the convention. District assemblies in
nearly all the large cities have resolved
that they will not yield obedience to its
provisions, and will vigorously contest
Its validity. The prerogatiyes which ii
gives to the general officers, who them
selves drew up the document In connsc-
tioE with The committe on law, the
members of which were to them as clay
In the potter's hands, are almost unlim-
TIED, and for. this reason the new conSti-
tuition will be fought by the tiberal-think.
ing districts with q degree of earnestness
which nothing else than fear of losing In
dividual freedom could inspire. Besides
the consideration of the new constitu.
ton nearly every section of the country
will have its WI quarrel to settle with
the present administration at Minneapo.
lis, and theg general officers are said to be
Quaking Mt the prospect.
Regarding the p~ork-packers' contro-
versy In Chicago last winter Mr.. Pow
DERBY himself is now preparing a state
ment for presentation to the convention,
explanatory Of the part he took in calling
the strike off. The position he will main
tain in this trouble, 1t is said, will be
substantially the same as in the other
cases of dispute--namely: that the laws,
and even the special legislation, Of the
general assembly justified and demanded
his interference 1t is asserted that his
opponents in that difficulty will charge
him with yielding to church influence.
and to this charge Mr.. Powderly will
also prepare IN answer. The general
officers say they have no fear of the social
istic element In the order throughout the
west, but their demeanor does not carry
out the assertion, and it is ~undoubted
that they a%pprehend trouble in that
quarter as in many others.
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS
There Was frost at Brookings Tuesday